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Land had to be reserved for schools to be built
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Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota used the Northwest Ordinance which is a document encouraging the creation of schools.
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This act gave responsibility to the the office education, and they had to give support to colleges and universities for land-grants. Schools would be segregated by color.
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changed the role of federal government in K-12 education
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If a school has federal aid they are not allowed to discriminate based on sex
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Congress decided that the Department of Education will be a cabinet level agency.
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President Bush signed this law, it wanted better test scores by 2014 and to measure students it used standardized testing .
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Returns some power to states over education
